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About the BCB List. London Catholic Writers' Circle. This Archive contains links to blogs that have not been updated for two or more years. I last checked to make sure the blogs named below were still online on 2nd November 2015. If you use the Archive and find any blogs that have since been deleted or made private feel free to contact me at. Britishcatholocbloggers [at] gmail.com to let me know. Abundance of Blessings, An. Alex Terego - Innovator, Writer, Teacher. At Home in my Father's House. In a stra...
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Two Rs and counting. At long last my 2010 Book Poll. Jan 5th, 2011 at 6:40 PM. Late again with my book poll. It's posted here. Over on DW. If you can't comment there, and want to, do so here. I love doing these polls as I'm always struck by the huge differences in what people read as well as by the huge volumes that some people read. Pun quite intentional! Reading not writing 2009 #7. Jan 9th, 2010 at 5:54 PM. 61 Beyond the pale. 62 Doubts and Desires. By George MacDonald Fraser. This is the first in...
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Reading & Writing
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Two Rs and counting. Reading not Writing 2009 #6. Nov 7th, 2009 at 9:59 AM. This is me just about up to date with these, and I'm not doing too badly overall. 51 Death of an Englishman. 52 A Whispered Name. 54 The Death Maze. 55 The stuff of Thought. By Steven Pinker. Pinker is a linguist and I've read a couple of his books before such as the Language Instinct and thoroughly enjoyed them. This one, for some reason, was a bit more of a slog, and in the end, I can't say I enjoyed it much. Howeve...By George...
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Reading not Writing 2009 #6 - Reading & Writing
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Two Rs and counting. Reading not Writing 2009 #6. Nov 7th, 2009 at 9:59 AM. This is me just about up to date with these, and I'm not doing too badly overall. 51 Death of an Englishman. 52 A Whispered Name. 54 The Death Maze. 55 The stuff of Thought. By Steven Pinker. Pinker is a linguist and I've read a couple of his books before such as the Language Instinct and thoroughly enjoyed them. This one, for some reason, was a bit more of a slog, and in the end, I can't say I enjoyed it much. Howeve...By George...
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Cut to pieces: The Butcher of Smithfield by Susanna Gregory(2008) | Only Two Rs
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Thoughts and discussion on reading and writing with a historical flavour. The giant under the snow, John Gordon (1968). Jolly good fun: London Pride, by Joanna Cannan (1939) →. Cut to pieces: The Butcher of Smithfield by Susanna Gregory(2008). I have previously been much enamoured of Gregory’s Mathew Bartholomew series set in mid 14th century Cambridge, but I hadn’t yet come across Thomas Chaloner. The Butcher of Smithfield. By Edward Marston and this is far superior. Chaloner even has a blog! Judith Lev...
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Stabbed through the heart: The Wounded Name by DK Broster (1922) | Only Two Rs
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Thoughts and discussion on reading and writing with a historical flavour. Gossips Galore: Detection Unlimited by Georgette Heyer (1953). Birds of a feather: The Silver Swan by Benjamin Black aka John Banville (2007) →. Stabbed through the heart: The Wounded Name by DK Broster (1922). This is another of Broster’s adventure tales set during the French Revolution, similar to Mr Rowl. Subtext, which I am beginning to realise is true of much of Broster’s work, although I’m sure this wasn’t intentional. 3 resp...
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Only Two Rs | Thoughts & discussion on reading & writing with a historical flavour | Page 2
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Thoughts and discussion on reading and writing with a historical flavour. Newer posts →. Some other book blogs. I thought it would be useful to list a couple of other book blogs which I read regularly, and which might be of interest to readers of this offering. Is as voracious a reader as I am. She is certainly much better at writing up reviews of what she reads. Covers a wide range of books, veering towards fantasy. Kissing cousins: Next of Kin by John Boyne (2006). Continue reading →. Whichever, I find...
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Kissing cousins: Next of Kin by John Boyne (2006) | Only Two Rs
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Thoughts and discussion on reading and writing with a historical flavour. Shooting Lions and Tigers: Manly Pursuits by Ann Harries (1999). Some other book blogs →. Kissing cousins: Next of Kin by John Boyne (2006). Set against a background of the abdication crises of 1936, with the plot deftly woven between real events, this erudite and entertaining historical thriller has a neat twist at the end. Other novels by John Boyne reviewed here:. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. Some other book blogs →. You are ...
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Louise Gerard | Only Two Rs
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Thoughts and discussion on reading and writing with a historical flavour. Shades of Unreason: Life’s Shadow Show, Louise Gerard (1916) →. My distaste notwithstanding, she was very popular in her day, being one of the fledgling Mills and Boon’s most successful authors and at least two of her novels were made into movies. Son of the Sahara. Was even reviewed by the New York Times in 1924. And also in Jay Dixon’s book The Romance fiction of Mills and Boon. A Golden Centipede 1910. The Hyena of Kallu 1910.
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